About NCVHS

The NCVHS serves as the statutory [42 U.S.C. 242k(k)] public advisory body to the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) for health data, statistics, privacy, and national health information policy and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). The Committee advises the HHS Secretary, reports regularly to Congress on HIPAA implementation, and serves as a forum for interaction between HHS and interested private sector groups on a range of health data issues.

Subcommittees

Full Committee

Advises the HHS Secretary on health data, statistics, privacy, national health information policy, and the Department’s strategy to best address those issues. Assists and advises HHS in the implementation of the Administrative Simplification provisions of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA).

Executive Subcommittee

Serves as the coordinating leadership group for the Committee as a whole. Proposes Committee priorities to the full Committee, tracks the Committee work plan to ensure coordination of activity across the Subcommittees and conducts periodic review and update of the Committee strategic plan for consideration by the full Committee.

Subcommittee on Population Health

Makes recommendations to the full Committee, examining the far-ranging considerations raised in generating information about the health of the American people and ensuring that this information is accurate, timely, and relevant.

Subcommittee on Privacy, Confidentiality and Security

Inactive Subcommittees and Workgroups

These Subcommittees and Workgroups were formed to accomplish specific objectives either for a designated period of time or until a specific project was completed. While the groups are inactive, the reports and rosters are included for historical, archival and reference purposes.

Review Committee

Reviews existing health care administrative transactions for which standards, code sets, identifiers, or operating rules have already been adopted and are currently in use as stipulated by Section 1104(i) of the Affordable Care Act (ACA).

Subcommittee on Standards

Monitors and makes recommendations to the full Committee on health data standards, including implementation of the Administrative Simplification provisions of Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA).